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Originally Posted by Strelok
Wasnt the Villar perosa the first?
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Technically yes, but it depends on your definition of the first smg - the Villar Perosa was horribly impractical in ground-combat and was originally design as an aircraft light machine gun and it was design to be fired from a stationary position (
http://world.guns.ru/smg/it/villar-perosa-e.html). The MP18 is a much more representative early design to what future interwar smgs (the british lancaster, the MP28, the Bergmann MP-35, the Type 100 were all derived from the MP18 design rather than the Villar Perosa)will be based on; hence, it is regarded as the first practical smg.